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Saved links, clusters of stuff worked through and more#

Every now and then I open the browser and get way too much stuff in it. So every now an then I close all the tabs but take some notes or copy the list of open pages.

I’ll probably never win that fight in trying to organize the stuff. But I want to keep track of some of the stuff I’ve read or built in a cluser. Because they might be usefull. I’ll need the cluster sooner or later, but I know I will never be able to summon the tabs I need.

Link shared at work about Python requests API design. Besides the API design message (the fact something looks nice and easy for the user for the most common cases does not mean it can be a mess in design), it opened the drama on the requests funding and some open source dynamics.

I think I’ve read in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python that requests is a good example of organizing a Python projects and its API. (One of the book authors was recommmanding his project.)

So, food for thought.

Stapleton Cordas also has an extra piece on open source I’d like to get into https://blog.ian.stapletoncordas.co/2019/02/open-sources-affects-on-a-career

Pygame and game development#

jumpy tutorial: https://github.com/russs123/Jumpy/tree/main (there is also a full video, here is the last part I had https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuM-jEQ7fAA)
states machines and menus in PyGame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DkQrJxpck (code: https://github.com/ChristianD37/YoutubeTutorials/tree/master/Game%20States)
Holding Out: repo of a game made with Python for Ludum Dare. Includes the “Pyracy” framework to scaffold and help out making games during game jams, https://github.com/jeremycryan/Holding-Out/tree/main/pyracy
Fallowtide: card game made with PyGame. Again for Ludum Dare. https://github.com/jeremycryan/Fallowtide
Skeletris: “A turn-based dungeon crawler with a spooky theme and lots of pixelart.” Again in PyGame. https://github.com/davidpendergast/skeletris
Fluffy’s pygrass: https://github.com/DaFluffyPotato/pygame-grass
Tactical RPG: https://github.com/Grimmys/rpg_tactical_fantasy_game
Pokemon made tux, directly linked from PyGame.ce page: https://github.com/Tuxemon/Tuxemon
Resync by Ghast https://ghastly.itch.io/resync. Code here https://github.com/davidpendergast/circuits
Bot Attack https://plasma-hype.itch.io/bot-attack
As a Mere Means: https://gizmo-0918.itch.io/as-a-mere-means
Temple of force https://notmee12.itch.io/temple-of-force

More games#

Daniel Linssen https://managore.itch.io/
https://openhv.itch.io/openhv
Unciv: Civ V remake in Kotlin https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv

Godot#

What if using Godot would make things easier compared to RenPy or PyGame? There’s an opportunity of learning a game engine, see PyGame from a new perspective and more. Let’s start storing these as well:

Starships Olympics, astro based games with Godot https://github.com/notapixelstudio/starship-olympics
Lost for Swords, again with Godot https://maxbytes.itch.io/lost-for-swords
2D multiplayer card games, wow! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QtQ5iXj2U0
card stuff in Godot https://www.libhunt.com/compare-godot_card_engine-vs-godot-card-game-framework
slay the spire Godot tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulgh_neTJG8&list=PL6SABXRSlpH8CD71L7zye311cp9R4JazJ

Repos and Tools#

Say byebye to goodreads, built with the Django stack! https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm
https://github.com/ak545/dns-domain-expiration-checker/tree/master
sql model https://github.com/tiangolo/sqlmodel
Query and search stuff https://github.com/nexus-stc/stc
OpenRPG https://github.com/openrpg/OpenRpg
Ingestr CLI tool to copy data between any databases with a single command seamlessly, https://github.com/bruin-data/ingestr. Docs here https://bruin-data.github.io/ingestr/.
Redis3 by Bauplan https://github.com/BauplanLabs/redis3
Fediverse card generation tool https://nashhigh.itch.io/fedi-cardmaker
Cakewallet https://github.com/cake-tech/cake_wallet
CoinWatch https://github.com/shorthouse/CoinWatch
Repo for digital garden https://github.com/thedevdavid/digital-garden

Reaper DAW#

I’ve installed Reaper and I am now trying to be able to do with that the things I did with an old cubase. It turns out the Reaper ecosystem has a lot of stuff to be explored. You know the deal, save links here for future perusement.

reapack, yes we need a package manager (npm vibes?) https://reapack.com/
chord tracks in Reaper https://forums.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=212645
the surge synth https://github.com/surge-synthesizer/surge

Links#

The random transformer: https://osanseviero.github.io/hackerllama/blog/posts/random_transformer/
Hires and laws: https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/
Attacks on machine learning models: https://rnikhil.com/2024/01/07/attacking-neural-networks.html
Discover RSS feeds in the fediverse https://rss-is-dead.lol/
The protocol force: https://glazkov.com/2024/01/02/the-protocol-force/
Programming in 10 years (teach yourself): https://norvig.com/21-days.html
Enchippening https://sarahconstantin.substack.com/p/the-enchippening
The Little Big (no, not Adventure but) Guide to message Queues: https://sudhir.io/the-big-little-guide-to-message-queues
cheapestdestinationblog.com
https://birtles.blog/2024/01/06/weird-things-engineers-believe-about-development/
https://www.matthewball.co/all/metaversespatialandmore
https://lucysullacultura.com/lintellettuale-e-la-ragazza-storia-di-una-manipolazione/
CSV processing https://datapythonista.me/blog/how-fast-can-we-process-a-csv-file
https://github.com/KillianLucas/open-interpreter
https://lmstudio.ai/
https://ollama.com/
https://communities.springernature.com/posts/get-out-of-the-nest-drivers-of-social-influence-in-the-twitter-migration-to-mastodon
https://docs.functime.ai
https://trent.mirror.xyz/GDDRqetgglGR5IYK1uTXxLalwIH6pBF9nulmY9zarUw
https://www.codemotion.com/magazine/it/dev-life-it/10-libri-che-leggero-nel-2024/
https://www.cantorsparadise.com/marginally-important-automatic-differentiation-with-dual-numbers-2448dc58e5e2
Protocols not platforms https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
dev, market and AI https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/the-one-about-the-web-developer-job-market/

SCAMP: Suite for Computer-Assisted Music in Python#

What about using Python to create music?

http://scamp.marcevanstein.com/
write ambient music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY8FkEzhg24
drum patterns with SCAMP and Reaper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJTTW4Imrw

Courses#

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-generative-ai-in/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/google-gemini-course-for-beginners/
Make a Gorillas game clone in JS https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/gorillas-game-in-javascript/

Pixel art (and RenPy)#

Fullstack python#

I toyed with the idea of making some dashboard visualization with dash, and even deployed that. I’ve explored the issue a bit further to consider if I could make a whole app with decoupled FE and BE using only Python. Here’s a wrap up of the links (for the actual project upgrade I think I can stick to the Django stack following the work done on Boookwyrm https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm)

This starts with this https://metaperl.github.io/pure-python-web-development/intro.html

Reflex: https://reflex.dev (with GeniePy tut here https://geniepy.com/blog/how-to-run-reflex-apps-in-production/)
Flet: https://flet.dev (flet FE and FastAPI BE with PostGREs https://github.com/kareemmahlees/Team-Manager)
Pyfyre: https://github.com/pyfyre/pyfyre
JustPy: https://justpy.io/tutorial

Python Deploys (a Dash story)#

Back in December and early January 2024 I worked on a small Dash App with login etc. This left many tabs opened ob how to add logging into Dash, how to deploy that and how to add emails for password recovery.